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Article: Opinion - Is all the talk of Web 2.0 just a lot of codswallop? Web 2.0 is big news, argues David Tebbutt. We're at another turning point in the internet's development with the use of web apps to access information.
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- Information World Review
- Article date:
- February 22, 2006
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A lot of people are putting their shirts on Web 2.0 not turning out to be Bubble 2.0.
What is Web 2.0? Isn't the web the web? Well, not as we once knew it. The web started as a means of delivering more or less static information to readers. The ability to provide a URL for every page meant that, instead of a massive digital library of isolated papers, brochures and the like, it became an interesting and helpful, cross-referenced, hyperlinked and universally accessible (subject to local laws) resource.
Then the monetisers came along and realised that it was a medium up which money could travel and down which digital products and services could flow. It ...